Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Arts
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Representing Mixed Race: Beyond “What are you?” Talking Race: A Digital Dialog 2013-05-28 Laura Kina, Vincent DePaul Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design DePaul University My 2011-12 oil paintings Issei, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, and Gosei are on view in “Under My Skin: Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century” at the Wing Luke Museum…
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Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America by Ayanna Thompson (Klett review) Theatre Journal Volume 65, Number 2, May 2013 pages 303-304 DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0043 Elizabeth Klett, Assistant Professor of Literature University of Houston, Clear Lake Ayanna Thompson’s exciting book analyzes a wide variety of sites for performing, interrogating, and dismantling Shakespeare and race in contemporary…
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Mixed Ethnicity, Hidden Identity The New York Times 2013-05-24 Kathryn Shattuck With his long-lashed chocolate eyes and inviting lips, used to seductive effect in “Rescue Me,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Devil Wears Prada,” Daniel Sunjata has the kind of face not easily forgotten, or so you’d think “If I’m exposed to crowds repeatedly, I could…
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‘Las Caras Lindas’: To Be Black And Puerto Rican In 2013 Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2013-05-25 Jasmine Garsd I am a black man Who was born café con leche I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited. And I got kicked out. They threw…
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At Peace With Many Tribes The New York Times 2013-05-19 Carol Kino HUDSON, N.Y. — One sunny afternoon early this month Jeffrey Gibson paced around his studio, trying to keep track of which of his artworks was going where. Luminous geometric abstractions, meticulously painted on deer hide, that hung in one room were about to…
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Ellen Gallagher: AxME Tate Modern: Exhibition Bankside London SE1 9TG 2013-05-01 through 2013-09-01 Ellen Gallagher is one of the most acclaimed contemporary artists to have emerged from North America since the mid-1990s. Her gorgeously intricate and highly imaginative works are realised with a wealth of virtuoso detail and wit. This is her first major solo…
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Ellen Gallagher: wigs, waterworlds and Wile E Coyote The Guardian 2013-05-07 Bim Adewunmi Adverts from black magazines, Plasticine, eyeballs – in the work of Ellen Gallagher, it’s all woven together into something new. Bim Adewunmi visits her chaotic Rotterdam studio Throughout our interview, Ellen Gallagher makes frequent trips to a large bookcase on the other…
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DePaul Art Minute – War Baby/Love Child exhibition DePaul Newsroom DePaul Art Museum 2013-05-16 DePaul University Associate Professor Laura Kina discusses how art featured in the “War Baby/Love Child” exhibit helps to tell the story of mixed race Asian Americans and the complexities of their mixed-heritage identities, in the third installment of the DePaul Art…
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Local Artists Collaborate on Asian Heritage Art Exhibits at DePaul Vocalo Morning Amp Vocalo 90.7 FM Chicago, Illinois 2013-05-16 Brian Babylon and Molly Adams, Hosts The exhibit War Baby/Love Child at the DePaul Art Museum highlights the work of mixed race artists who share Asian heritage in their identities. Curator Laura Kina and artist Mequitta…